1.22a Patch Notes

[Raymeo]

As evidenced by Yoshida's March Letter form the Producer this was never planed as just a "Hot-Fix" Patch. It was clearly designed as an additional content patch to include AF Weapons. The real problem is the fact that they failed to mention anything about any delays. We have become so accustomed to receiving timely information that when they slip up, as they did this time, people react negatively. A simple post via the Community Reps would have avoided much of this. Most people are understanding of the complexities of trying to work on 2 games simultaneously and will accept some delay as long as they know before hand.

It's this exactly. A month and a half ago, Yoshi said he'd keep players in the loop as decisions about job-exclusive weapons delays progressed. After that, not one word was said by any devs or community reps about decisions to delay the weapons past 1.22a. We got to find out from the patch itself that what we were looking forward to was actually not included.

If the community is expecting to be filled in if things fall behind schedule, then it makes sense that silence is to be taken as though everything's running smoothly. "Oh, good, there must not have been any more problems because Yoshi said they'd keep us in the loop if there were going to be any more." So understandably, people were looking forward to checking out the new content tonight, and perhaps more importantly, Welcome Back players were expecting to have an opportunity to judge this new content during their ten days back. Now the joke's on them because their hopes were set up by a promise to be kept informed of problems as they arose, and then those hopes were falsely allowed to build into expectations based on the devs' silence.

The problem is not that there is a delay. The community understood when it was delayed the first time, because the devs mentioned it to us as they found out about it. The problem is that the players were not kept in the loop as promised. Instead the rug's been pulled out at the very last second, and no explanation what the heck happened is anywhere in sight. Way to make an impression on those Welcome Back players looking forward to joining us tonight.